Never a dull moment...

One weekend each year, the Konkol and Mrdutt families get together to cut wood at the Mrdutt farm. They do this as a "thank you" for allowing everyone to use the land during deer hunting season. It's a boys weekend, but the girls go along to play inside with Mason, and take some time to go shopping. This year, George, Mark, Ben, Chris, Jim and Randy all spent the day cleaning up some major wood piles.

While the boys worked away, the girls went shopping. Mason, Barb, Katie, Mom and I all piled into our trailblazer and visited the nearby Grain Bin Market and Bakery, and then the Country Cabin. Mason wasn't in the best of moods, as he is fighting a slight cold, so we decided to head back to the farm. The trailblazer was acting up, so Mom, Katie and I piled into Mom's Buick to head to Pleasant Valley Tree Farm to do a little more shopping. Barb was nice enough to stay home with Mason.

(Note: The trailblazer was in all-wheel drive, so it was "missing". Oops.)

The tree farm was very busy, with lots of people checking out the corn maze, the many kids activities and the hay ride. For us it was a bust, as we were craft shopping and their store had already transitioned from "fall" to "Christmas". So, we headed back.

Mom was driving, and we were pulling from Hwy 25 to Hwy FF. I was laying in the backseat, fighting a slight headache I'd had all day and Katie was making fun of Mom because she started slowing down about a 1/2 mile before our turn. We were about to turn left, waiting for a truck to pass, and then slowly started our turn when....

Crash.

I jolted up to our car being plowed into the ditch. We had no idea what happened, it happened so fast. Katie and I were okay, but we looked over to Mom and she was bleeding from the head. Mom was asking what happened, and I was getting her bleeding under control while Katie hopped out and checked on the other car. I called 9-11, as did another person that stopped.

Thankfully all of us are okay. We aren't sure about the other couple from the other car. They did not appear to have any injuries but the man was airlifted by helicopter because of some memory issues. The woman complained of chest pain. We never did catch their names.

Had that car hit only 1 split second later, who knows what could have happened. I'm not sure Mom would still be here. I was also on the driver's side in the back, so who knows...

We took a few pictures of the damage:





We made the news.

The one thing I'll always remember from it was when Mom asked one of the EMT's to move slightly to the left as they were talking to her, to cover up her view of the big white cross right outside her door. This corner has a history in that neighborhood of being unsafe.

Regardless, it was one of those moments that scare the crap out of you and make you realize how lucky you are to be living. You count your blessings.

I'm going to go hug my boys now. :)